Rug dilemma

We have a problem! We have purchased a 5x7 rug for our living room. It's ok, the longer it is down the more it grows on me. But I kind of wanted a rug with a little attitude! So look at our living room in the below pictures... then compare it to the following two rugs.


The 3 rugs are the same size and relatively the same price. The only thing is the two on here I would have to order online...which is a little risky for my liking. Anyway, I think I am personally pulling for the ..well I don't really know. I used to like the 2nd one best but I don't know anymore. HELP!!!!

Welcome to our home!

We have been settled into our new home for just over a week now. It's crazy how much we've changed since we moved in... I can finally say it feels like home!! So now that our dining table is in (finally we have a table! A year and a half eating dinner on the couch is too long!!)--and thanks again to Ryan and Jolee for the great discount :-) ... and pictures are hung...and we have a desk...I finally feel like it's time to present our little home to the world...er...family and friends!

So here is a photo collection...we have 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and some other things you'll see too.

This is from our bedroom window...we can see the Timpanogos Temple, which doesn't look very close in this photo but it's actually a pretty good view. This photo doesn't show the 2nd vanity but that is probably our favorite feature of our new place!

And the lovely sunsets we have each evening to see off our balcony :-)


We love our new home! I love the kitchen, Justin loves the HD channels. We upgraded our cable to get the dvr box thingy and it is .. well I don't know that we can ever go back to not having it! It is so great to have our favorite shows recorded (for me it's HGTV Design Star, Project Runway and the Cake Boss and for Justin, well it's any guy-movie so far) so we don't have to watch a bunch of shows we don't really care about. In the end we end up watching less TV and so we feel very good about this upgrade! Pleasant Grove is great so far, everything seems at our fingertips and we're constantly surprised at how close things really are. We can't wait to have people over for dinner and games!

Yummy banana chocolate bread!

Honestly I don't really do much that I think is brag-worthy in the kitchen. And this post isn't about my cooking abilities, or lack thereof, but rather about a pretty yummy recipe I came across!

The recipe: Two-toned Banana Bread

(I did milk, of course, instead of rum).

The result:
You can bet that this recipe was pretty easy, or else I wouldn't have had such a good outcome! Unfortunately, I have a husband who won't eat anything banana-related so I get to enjoy this bread pretty much all to myself...that might not be such a good thing! Anyway, I would give this recipe 4 stars and a vote that you should try it!

Greetings from the Villas!

Thanks so much to everyone who helped us move yesterday! I haven't really done much moving on that big of a scale (granted, we don't even have that much stuff yet) but I thought it went really well. Justin especially appreciated the help when it came to the heavy things, I'm so glad for strong men!

Anyway, we're all moved in now! Almost everything is in its place, only a few more pictures to hang. I think I have a sentimental block when it comes to moving, I love our new place and it is so much nicer than what we had before, but it doesn't feel like home yet. Hopefully that will change very quickly :-) Pictures will be posted shortly so stay tuned!

On another note... since we're moving and changing things around a bit in our lives, we thought we would add one more change! No we're not pregnant.... sorry to disappoint! Justin was accepted into Westminister College's MBA program and after meeting with an advisor and praying about it, we feel like it is the right time for it and the right place. So Justin, in just 1 week, will be adorning his backpack once more to head back to school. He's starting with a light load this first term, 1 class - 1 night a week, and then will move to 2 classes in the second term. He'll still be working at Pinnacle Security full time so he's going to be a very busy man for the next few years! Grad school was going to happen next fall it was looking like, but this blessing came a week or so again so we figured why not go ahead and get started on it!

Anyway that's a little update from the Blackhams. Hope everyone had a great weekend! And again, thank you so much to everyone who helped us move!!!!!

This Saturday!

We're moooooovvvviiinngggg!!! If you want to help it's our place this Saturday at 9:15 a.m. Be there or be not cool, or square, whichever :-) New locale: Pleasant Grove! wahoooooo!